Earlybird Educare New Career Opportunity

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Earlybird is a social enterprise that seeks to address the shortage of high-quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) services in South Africa by opening a network of workplace- and community-based educare centres across the country.

Job Title: Chief Financial Officer

Job Location:

Cape Town

Johannesburg

Responsibilities:

Financial Management, Reporting, and Planning

Work with the CEO on strategy, scenario planning, and long-term projections

Plan, develop, and running Earlybird’s strategy for identifying and engaging potential corporate partners (businesses which wish to include our on-site educare offering as part of their employee wellness package)

‘Engage’ includes pitching (together with our CEO) our offering at high-level management meetings with partner corporates and going through various costing scenarios with corporate partners, helping to price out services under various conditions

Maintain a detailed database of (potential) partners and tracking progression of engagement for each relationship

Ensure you have an up-to-date understanding of the BEE Codes of Good Practice to quantify the BEE opportunities that exist for potential partners; coordinating with Earlybird’s BEE consultants on more technical BEE questions

Governance and Legal

Ensure the organisation’s compliance with the Companies Act and good corporate governance, procedures and protocols

Critically reviewing and updating contract templates for service provision to corporate partners as well as franchise agreements

Liaise with appointed legal firm on all legal matters

Ensure compliance with existing contracts

Assist with legal, tax and governance matters in respect of a potential international expansion

Requirements:

Minimum of three years’ experience in a corporate work environment.

B.com Accounting degree or equivalent with accounting, articles and CA(SA) a distinct advantage

Confident speaking with senior executives and government officials

Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple and overlapping deadlines almost exclusively on one’s own

Reliably sets and meets expectations

Willingness and ability to gain a working knowledge of concepts in the fields of early education, innovative finance, and education technology

Personable, reliable, organised, motivated by impactful work

A creative problem-solver who is undaunted by the inevitable challenges that will crop up as we work to break new ground in South Africa’s under-developed Early Childhood Development sector

Strong communicator, capable of engaging in big-picture strategic thinking as well as detail-oriented implementation to join our management team as a full-time Chief Financial Officer